Linux Command Line Job Trends in the North of England

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 246 278
Rank change year-on-year -11 +32 +92
Permanent jobs citing Linux Command Line 12 23 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.096% 0.29% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.86% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 22
10th Percentile - £38,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £45,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,722 £47,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -44.12% +54.55%
75th Percentile £78,790 £52,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £78,815 £55,625 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Linux Command Line falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,425 2,671 4,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.36% 33.65% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,886 1,228 3,242
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,759
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linux Command Line relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Linux Command Line job vacancy trend in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux Command Line.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Linux Command Line

Linux Command Line
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Command Line in the North of England

Linux Command Line
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Command Line within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +10 6 £55,000 +12.82% 3
North East - 4 £73,801 - 1
Yorkshire -40 2 £48,445 +1.99% 3
Linux Command Line
England

Linux Command Line
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECR
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (41.67%) dbt
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 5 (41.67%) OCI
3 5 (41.67%) PaaS
3 5 (41.67%) Pulumi
3 5 (41.67%) Sentry
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Mid Level C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JSR 170
2 1 (8.33%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Signage
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
3 5 (41.67%) Coaching
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Observability
3 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (41.67%) Prototyping
3 5 (41.67%) RBAC
3 5 (41.67%) Secrets Management
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Copilot
1 5 (41.67%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) CyberArk
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe